Stars: Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson, Sean Patrick Flanery, Dean Cain, Brad Dourif, Fred Ward, Mitchell Whitfield, Andy Dick, Tracy Fraim

Director: Tamra Davis

Summary: A man just out of prison and on the way to his wedding is persuaded by his buddies that robbing the town bank is a good idea...

Jesse (Luke Wilson) has just been released from jail and is on his way to church to marry his sweetheart (Drew Barrymore). But along the way Billy (Sean Patrick Flanery), one of his best men, needs to make a quick stop at the bank. Unbeknownst to Jesse, Billy is the notorious bank robber known as "Hamlet," named as such for spewing out Shakespearean quotes during his heists. The small-time robbery quickly transforms into a major fiasco leading to the lovebirds exchanging their vows at the bank, and the FBI becoming their witnesses. BEST MEN is a funny love story with a criminal edge.

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Tamra Davis' Best Menmust have seemed a better idea on paper than it ends up being in practice, in spite of some snappy dialogue and good central performances. A group of male friends meet Jesse (Luke Wilson) out of prison to take him to his wedding to Hope (Drew Barrymore); along the way, their friend David pops into the bank for some money and turns out to be the Shakespeare-spouting bandit Hamlet. Suddenly all of them are his unwilling accessories in a hostage situation with David's sheriff father and murderous FBI men besieging them and a crowd cheering their every move.

Each of the young men has a trauma and it is not only David who gets a soliloquy: gay Green Beret Buzz (Dean Cain) has an extended period of bonding with one of the hostages, demented Vietnam vet Gonzo (Brad Dourif). The eventual action sequences are curiously perfunctory and uninteresting and the obsessive FBI man, Hoover, has little motivation. This is a likable film which goes nowhere, but has quite a lot of gentle charm along the way to its tragic ending.

On the DVD:the DVD is presented in a widescreen video aspect of 2.35:1 and has Dolby surround sound; the special features are a slightly self-congratulatory "making of" featurette and the film's theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Scene Index, Theatrical Trailer, Featurette
Subtitles:	None
Year:	1997
Release Date:	June 7, 2004
Runtime:	86 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 8836
Keywords:	Men, Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Best
Genre:	Comedy